Improvement in pipe-tongs



WILLIAM H.` DOWNING.

limprovement in Pipe Tongs.

No. 122,30@ Patentedlamznsn.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. DOWNING, OF SHAMBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO PETER MORRIS, OF SAME PLACE.

HWPROVIIMENI IN MPE-Tomas.`

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,308, dated January 2, 1372.

SPECIFICATION.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Pipe-Tongs, invented by WILLIAM H. DOWNING, of Shainburg, in the county of Venango and State of Pennsylvania.

My invention consists of the combination of a detachable lever with the pipe-tongs in coin- Inon use, so arranged that two persons standing upon opposite sides ofthe pipe may apply their strength at the saine time, securing more power and greater rapidity and obviating the necessity of frequently renewing the gripe on the pipe.

The drawing represents` a pair of pipe-tongs embodying` my invention.

a and b are the ordinary lever-handles of the tongs, pivoted at c, andwith jaws formed to embrace the pipe in the usual manner. d is a detachable lever-handle secured upon the lever a, forming a continuation thereof and projeotcombined with the lever a of the tongs, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM H. nowNING.

vWitnesses:

ANDREW B. HowLANn, y y y E. B. BREW. (4100) 

